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This is Chris BUBLIN's recipe from a few years ago... if you have to make your own:

Deli-style rye bread

Makes 4 - 1 lb loaves.

3 cups lukewarm water
1 1/2 Tbsp yeast
1 1/2 Tbsp salt
1 1/2 Tbsp caraway seeds, plus more for sprinkling
1 cup rye flour
5 1/2 cups all purpose flour
cornmeal for sprinkling
cornstarch for cornstarch wash

1. Mix the yeast, salt and caraway seeds with the water in a large bowl. Mix in the remaining dry ingredients without kneading. Cover with a towel and allow to rest at room temperature for about 2 hours. At this point, you can prepare the dough for baking or store in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

2. Dust the surface of the dough with flour and cut off 1/4 of the dough. Dust the piece with more flour and quickly shape it into a ball. Elongate the ball into an oval-shaped loaf. Allow it to rest and rise on a cornmeal covered surface (pizza peel if you’re going to transfer to a baking stone or a baking sheet if you’re baking right on the baking sheet) for 40 minutes.

3. Preheat the oven to 450 F with an empty broiler tray on the shelf underneath the one you plan to bake on. Heat the baking stone up with the oven if you are using one.

4. Make the cornstarch wash by combining 1/2 tsp cornstarch with a small amount of water to form a paste. Add 1/2 cup water, whisk and microwave for about 60 seconds. Paint the top of the loaf with the cornstarch wash and then sprinkle on caraway seeds. Slash with deep parallel cuts across the loaf using a serrated bread knife.

5. Bake the loaf on a baking sheet or slide it onto the hot baking stone. Bake for 30 minutes. As you put the bread in the oven to bake, pour 1 cup of hot tap water into the broiler tray and quickly close the oven door. Allow to cool before slicing or eating.

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Peter's Panaderia (he has a new name now) at the mall across from WalMart always has freshly-baked rye, although it is not a heavy rye (I'm guessing this is Xena's mention). He's easier to get at from the back parking. Pancho at SuperLake was recently baking a few loaves every day, too... but with his bakery and habitual changes, I couldn't say for sure now.

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The rye bread at SuperLake is the real deal. He gets it frozen from the US. If there isn't any with the other bakery products in the front, go look at the freezer doors on the right.

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I typically do not remember the names of the shopping centers. Referring to the Scandanavia Bakery, is that Laguna the one on the same side of the street as El Torito, but a block further West on the corner?

Laguna is the big shopping center, opposite Walmart.

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